Beeching - Any other Countries suffer the same?

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According to Wiki, I see the remaining 891mm Roslagen line in NE Stockholm (Roslagsbanan) is going to be extended from its terminus at Stockholm Östra to the city centre at T-Centralen.

 

[JonasB]

I was a bit confused about the date of the end of the Swedish 1067mm gauge (though as you say, not of all the lines concerned -- viz. standard-gauging) -- however, if I'm right, there's no preserved 1067mm trackage in Sweden; although several of the country's locos of this gauge, both steam and diesel, have been saved.

There might be a few metres here and there of preserved track, but no lines. Which is a bit sad. The last 1067 mm line was officially closed in 1981 so by then there should have been some interest in preserving a part of it. Not sure how much rolling stock has been preserved though. When SJ took over the lines a lot of vehicles where in pretty bad condition, so they had to order new locos and multiple units. But the plan was that 1067 mm had no future and the lines would pretty soon be either closed or regauged, so they specified that all new vehicles had to be able to be converted to 891 mm. So many vehicles are preserved today on heritage railways, but on 891 mm track.

I suspect that he was unaware that 891mm, though a Swedish speciality, is in fact not all that weird: it being, if I have things rightly, three Swedish feet.

Correct, three feet or 1.5 aln. One Swedish foot was 296.9 mm.

According to Wiki, I see the remaining 891mm Roslagen line in NE Stockholm (Roslagsbanan) is going to be extended from its terminus at Stockholm Östra to the city centre at T-Centralen.

That has been the plan for quite a long time, but so far there is no funding for it.